The US President has taken a tough line on Pyongyang after a string of missile tests – including a failed launch last Sunday.

Kim is determined to develop a nuclear weapon capable of striking the mainland US.

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North Korea’s state media wrote: “If the US provokes the DPRK even a bit, its army and people will start a great war of justice for national reunification without hesitation.

"Noting that the U.S. warmongers hysterically try to ignite a war by mobilizing nuclear strategic assets without any measure to deal with the consequences to be entailed.

"The U.S. has now gone seriously mad. It is mulling frightening the DPRK and achieving something with nuclear strategic bombers, nuclear carriers, etc.

"However, the army and people of the DPRK will never be browbeaten by such bluffing.:

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Confusion initially reigned as the USS Carl Vinson strike force headed for the Indian Ocean – going further away from North Korea.

But this week the aircraft carrier and its destroyers turned North and is now due to arrive this week in the Sea of Japan.

Both China and Russia are watching nervously amid fears a flood of refugees could wash over their borders if the US strikes North Korea.